Carbon_Dating presents a series of artwork-based experiments aimed at generating interest in Australia’s endangered native grasses. By drawing on Indigenous cultural, scientific, botanical and artistic understandings, the Carbon_Dating project asks: how can we see our grass and grasslands in new, more equal and ecological ways? In 2022–23, six teams of scientists, artists, growers and First Nations informants across Queensland grew and cared for their own plot of native grasses in search of answers. This exhibition shares their learnings, diverse stories and artworks produced through a range of mediums.
Delissa Walker, The Native Fence, 2023, native bamboo (Neololeba atra); native grasses: Black Spear, Top Scented and Barbed Wire, Raffia, 115 × 165 × 7cm. Photograph: Carl Warner. Courtesy the artist and Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland
Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland
11 August to 1 October 2024
Queensland
